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McGuinty Government Announces $250M Fund
McGuinty’s government announced a new fund today oriented towards helping keep Ontario start-ups moving forward in the face of a non-existant venture capital market. The fund will match private...
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Carleton University Poster Session – Innovation, Talent, Commercialization
I attended the Carleton University engineering poster session on Mar 20th. 89 engineering students displayed the results of 36 4th year projects...
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Technology Rates Adoption from 1900 to Present
This interesting chart is from the New York Times, it highlights the speed of adoption of new technologies over the years. The general conclusion is that adoption/consumption of new technology occurs...
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MagCloud – Do It Yourself Magazine Publishing …a Cool Idea with Loads of...
HP is currently running a beta of a new online service called “MagCloud“. The service allows anyone to produce a magazine and print it – on demand – for $0.20 a page. The service also offers an...
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Lead-to-Win Turns Economic Downturn into Opportunity for Laid-Off Technology...
April 16, 2009 – Press Release Ottawa, Ontario Lead-to-Win Turns Economic Downturn into Opportunity for Laid-Off Technology Workers in Canada’s Capital Region In the tech meltdown of 2002, four out of...
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Join Lead to Win: Drive Massive Innovation in Canada’s Capital Region
Join Lead to Win: Drive Massive Innovation in Canada’s Capital Region If you are serious about starting a profitable technology based business in the National Capital Region during the current economic...
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High Tech? Ensure You Know About the IRAP Small Project Accellerated Review...
Posted in Best practices, Business, Canada, Commercialization, Creative Class, Economy, Ecosystems, Entreprenuerism, General Interest, Government, Government Policy, Information Technology, Innovation,...
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Wii – a platform for innovative product development …a Cool Idea with Loads...
The Nintendo Wii and it’s accessories represent a new platform with a lot of new opportunities for entrepreneurs to develop derivative products from. A case in point, Johny Lee at Carnegie Mellon...
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A Cool Technology –“Sensitive Object”
This new technology from Sensitive Object presents some interesting potential for new applications. Their technology can turn almost any object into a touch-sensitive interface! Posted in Best...
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Lead to Win Program Update – April 25th
CTV Ottawa News Coverage This Sunday! Tune-in to CTV Ottawa TECH NOW with Paul Brent on April 26th at 6PM for a special report on Lead to Win! City of Ottawa, Carleton University and Business – United...
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Lead to Win Videos
Message from Dr Tony Bailetti for Prospective Lead to Win Participants Testimonial from Jerry Everett, President of onconference Want more information? Visit the Lead to Win website at...
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Lead to Win May-June Sessions
The 2009 Lead to Win program kicked-off this week. The program was originally planned to support 30 participants per session. Due to overwhelming demand from highly qualified candidates the program...
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Broadband Infrastructure Projects for Economic Development
A recent report from OECD advocates government policy makers deploy stimulus funds and investment into broadband infrastructure - Broadband infrastructure, in particular, can be a good target for...
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Robert Half Technology IT Jobs Outlook Released
Robert Half Technology issued data on IT jobs outlook this week, key findings from their survey: Technology executives attribute staff reductions largely to reduced IT budgets and company wide layoffs...
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BDC Gas Tank is Filled Up!
Industry Canada announced on Monday that they will be providing additional funding for BDC. The funding allocation includes $350M for BDC‘s venture capital activities that will allow it to make...
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Lead to Win Reception
Lead to Win held a reception on Monday evening for participants and supporters. Special guests included the Mayor of Gatineau and the acting Mayor of Ottawa. Both expressed their support for the...
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GUI Mock Up Software Tools
I spent some time recently looking at GUI mock up and associated requirements management applications. I grouped the tools into three categories: general purpose tools that could be used for mock ups,...
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COBOL still going strong after more then 50 years?
I took a COBOL course while in University (not sure why I did at the time, other then I found programming languages interesting (and still do)) and also subsequently took a part-time job as teaching...
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Government 2.0
Tim O’Reilly spoke at http://www.aifestival.org about Government 2.0. According to People and Places: He advocated enabling four types of interaction: Government to citizen – providing services and...
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JobNob – Linking Unemployed and Startups?
I like watching what is going on in Silicon Valley in general. There are always good tech and trend insights. But there are also some very innovative ideas related to social innovation. For instance...
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The Entrepreneurial Effect
I am involved in a new book that is now out. Members of the local Ottawa tech community have gotten together to produce a new book called “the Entrepreneurial Effect” with the foreword by Terry...
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Lead to Win – November Session Accepting Applications!
The Lead to Win program is accepting applications for the November session. If you are interested in creating your own company – check out the program at http://www.leadtowin.ca. Spaces are limited and...
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Favorite OSX, Windows, Linux, Hosted Free Software
Windows CCleaner – system optimization and cleanup WinDirStat -disk space usage maps StM - start-up program manager 7-Zip – file compression/decompression ImgBurn - CD/DVD image creator and burner...
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Social “Things”
There is a lot of interest these days regarding social “things” and their potential to change how people communicate. There are currently three main categories of social “things” on the internet...
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Social “Things” and E-democracy
Social networks and services offer interesting possibilities for the future of e-democracy. E-democracy is a combination of the words “electronic” and democracy.” E-democracy represents the use of...
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Social Networking + Mobile = Next Killer App
Morgan Stanley recently published data on key economy and internet trends. The presentation is available online at various locations, including SlideShare below: Some key highlights: Mobile internet...
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GUI Mock Up Tools for iPhone
I posted some information back in August about GUI mock-up tools. Since then, I have tried a variety of tools, including the hosted Protoshare and the multi-platform desktop application Balsamiq...
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Automated Testing Tools for iPhone
I recently asked some friends for their insights into automated testing tools for iPhone. Based on the feedback (special thanks to Kevin Burr!) and some research, it turns out there are a few...
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How to Market and Publicize iPhone Apps
The following table provides a list of sites that provide reviews and directories for iPhone applications. Many accept submissions for review, some are automated: Website Link Submission Link App Store...
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What is the Mood of the Nation?
Mobile applications, combined with cloud computing and software offers the unique ability to reach out to the world and collect real-time information from the community. Ever wonder what the “Mood of...
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Search Engine Marketing and SEO Job Titles
Account Executive Campaign Analyst Client Services Manager Director of Analytics Director of eMarketing Director of Internet Marketing Director of Marketing Director of SEO Director of Search Director...
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Purple Forge CPAC 2010 App Doing Great!
Purple Forge and Raise Digital released an iPhone application for the CPAC 2010 conference being held this week. Raise Digital has a good page talking about the app on their website. So far the...
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Tim Hudak App a Great Success
Purple Forge recently did an iPhone application for Tim Hudak, leader of The Ontario PC Party. The application has been a great success – it has generated a huge amount of earned media for The...
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Tools to Review Graphic Asset Designs
The following are web-based design collaboration tools for creative professionals whose final product is visual, e.g. design, application interface, graphics, advertisements, branding, video animation....
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Social Networking and New Media Stats
Survey stats as of April 3, 2010 from Purple Forge iPhone applications show that Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are the top 3 social networking/media applications used by Purple Forge application users...
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GUI Mockup Tools Part 2
Two new mockup/wireframe design apps are now available for the iPad that are worth taking a look at: SketchyPad iMockups My initial impression is that iMockups is the better of the two at the moment…...
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Mind Mapping Tools and iPad – A Perfect Fit
I am a big fan of mind mapping tools. My favorite tool has traditionally been Freemind, a free tool that works across Windows and Mac. I recently changed over to using XMind and have been exploring...
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App Demo Tools
The following works well for doing app demos for protoypes or pre-release apps: Take an “expendable” iTouch device with iOS4 on it Launch http://jailbreakme.com in Safari on the iTouch Install...
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UI/UX Design Patterns
Came across these links to UI/UX design patterns in a LinkedIn discussion thread – some good references for others that are interested in this sort of stuff: http://ui-patterns.com/...
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Red Bull Marketing is Great!
The use of web addresses plastered on sports, products and billboards is very effective. I was reading an article today on the web about the red bull high altitude parachute jump and was wondering how...
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